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Labour – No Alternative

Apr 18, 2009
AGAINST THE background of the developing crisis in the Irish economy, the Labour Party continues to posture as a party that fights in the interests of working people. At its recent national Conference, Party Leader Eamon Gilmore  several times referred to "crony
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Afghanistan – Obama’s war

Apr 18, 2009
By Paul Murphy THE HERALDED “change” from Bush’s foreign policy which Obama supposedly represents, is increasingly looking like a simple shift in geographical focus. The tactics used in Iraq – bribing past opponents and using a surge of military force – are
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G20 leaders have no solution to world crisis

Apr 18, 2009
By Kevin McLoughlin THE G20 Summit in London was said to be the start of the “fight back against the global recession”; and the creation of a “New Economic Order”. Some of the leaders even said it was “historic”. Does the G20
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Joe Higgins for Europe

Apr 18, 2009
THE EUROPEAN Election on 5 June is a brilliant opportunity for working people in Dublin to deliver a massive blow against the Fianna Fail/ Green Party government which is saddling them with savage burdens to pay for the crimes of the swindling
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Great Gas Give-away

Apr 18, 2009
Tax hikes and cuts while government gives away €540 billion for free! By Paul Murphy WHILE THE government puts the boot into ordinary people in another vicious budget, the giveaway of billions of euro of gas continues. Figures from the Department of
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Home help cuts hurt the vulnerable

Apr 18, 2009
By Councillor Mick Barry CUTBACKS IN the home help service are taking a heavy toll in human misery. Just before Christmas, Eamonn Timmins of Age Action Ireland went public on the story of a 94 year old woman who had been put
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Council projects worth millions under threat

Apr 18, 2009
By Councillor Clare Daly FINGAL COUNCIL’S 2009 Capital Programme could be cut by .55 million following a financial directive from the Department of the Environment that prohibits the Council from using its full reserve fund of developers’ levies. This insane advice from
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Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden

Divide & Rule: Labour & the Partition of Ireland